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Written on March 31st, 2009 at 11:03 am by Darren Rowse
31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Delayed 1 Week
This is just a short post to let those waiting for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog project to start tomorrow that I’ve had to delay it until next week.
This isn’t an April Fools prank (beware, some bloggers have started theirs early this year) but a genuine thing that has been the result [...]
Written on March 28th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Would you Like Forums With that? [31 Days to Build a Better Blog]
I’m starting to get really excited about the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge that starts next week here on ProBlogger.
I’ve been busily writing a lot of the teaching and assignments for it already and am excited to see that well over 4300 people have signed up as registered participants (I suspect we’ll [...]
Written on March 25th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Sign Up Here
Starting on 1 April (Update: this is now starting on 6th April) I am planning on launching another ‘31 Days to a Better Blog‘ project.
I’ve run this twice previously (once in 2005 and once in 2007) so thought that I should continue the biennial nature of it.
This year I’m going to run it slightly differently [...]
Written on December 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Seasons Greetings and Why I’m Thankful
It’s just ticked over to Christmas Day here in Australia and I wanted to take a moment from the normal rhythm of this blog to stop and wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Here in Australia we don’t do ‘Thanksgiving’ as a holiday and so in our house Christmas is a day where we not only [...]
Written on October 22nd, 2008 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse
Winner of the “Learn about Poverty” Day of Digital Learning in Sydney
Earlier in the month I ran a competition here on ProBlogger in conjunction with World Vision Australia and their blog Learn About Poverty. The competition was for Australian bloggers to give World Vision advice on their online strategy going forward.
We had 29 entries and having read through them all late last week I was really [...]
Written on October 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Reflections on Poverty – Blog Action Day 2008
Today is Blog Action Day – a day where thousands of bloggers around the world commit to write on the one topic in the hope of creating awareness around that issue. The topic this year is Poverty. For a lot of great resources on the topic of Poverty check out Learn About Poverty. I’ve included [...]
Written on October 11th, 2008 at 07:10 am by Darren Rowse
If You Missed the Last ProBlogger Newsletter – Here’s a Sneak Peak
One of the strategies that I use on each of my blogs these days is to have a newsletter (I use Aweber to send them) that is associated with each blog. On my photography blog this newsletter is a weekly affair (I send them each Thursday) but here on ProBlogger they are monthly (ish).
I sent [...]
Written on October 10th, 2008 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse
Win an Ultimate Digital Training Day Prize [AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS ONLY]
Let me make this very clear up front – this competition is for Australian residents only. I know this cuts out the majority of you but it is for charity and every other competition I’ve run is for everyone – so please forgive me for this localized focus. Having said that, I would still encourage [...]
Written on September 30th, 2008 at 07:09 am by Darren Rowse
I’ve Joined the Photrade Advisory Board
I’m really excited today to announce that I have joined the advisory board of Photrade (picture is by Renee Blodgett and is Andrew Paradies, CEO of Photrade). You can read the press release here – but in short, Photrade is a company that excites me on numerous fronts and crosses two of my passions – [...]


